‘Operation Tiger’ Draws Blood As More Uddhav Thackerey Men Defect
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena continues to bleed due to 'Operation Tiger' after Sindhudurg district Sena chief Sanjay Padte resigned from his post on Tuesday.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena continues to bleed due to 'Operation Tiger' after Sindhudurg district Sena chief Sanjay Padte resigned from his post on Tuesday.
Rajan Salvi was defeated in the 2024 Maharashtra assembly elections and lost to Eknath Shinde-led MLA Kiran Samant, from Rajapur assembly constituency in the coastal Konkan region.
M S Bhuvanachandran, founder of Shiv Sena’s Kerala unit, has left the party following disenchantment with the style of working of Uddhav Thackeray.
Shiv Sena (UBT) has unilaterally announced that the party will go solo in the upcoming nagar panchayat, nagar parishad, zilla parishad and municipal corporation elections. Party MP Sanjay Raut announced this here on Saturday.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut is well known for criticising the BJP and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis regularly, but he ended up praising Fadnavis on Friday in Mumbai, surprising several political observers.
The MLAs covering their mouths with black bands sat on the steps of the Assembly holding posters.
Issuing notice to the Shinde faction to respond to a petition by Thackeray group challenging the February 17 EC order allotting it both Shiv Sena party’s name and its symbol ‘Bow and Arrow’, the apex court said, “We can't stay the order at this stage.”
The EC, last Friday, awarded the fiercely-contested 'Shiv Sena' name and symbol to the Shinde faction, triggering howls of protest in the rival camp.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on Wednesday a plea by Uddhav Thackeray against the Election Commission of India (ECI) decision recognising the Eknath Shinde faction as the official Shiv Sena.
The Supreme Court asked senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi to make the mentioning on Tuesday as no unlisted mentioning would be entertained.
